mvindahl

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by mvindahl 3y ago
Ironically, I had to locate the X and close two video ad overlays in order to calm the screen enough to enjoy the article. And even then, the right part of my screen was flashing ads, and every few paragraphs an ad was shoehorned into the t
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by mvindahl 4y ago
When I was a young kid in the early 1980s, my grandpa had a large book about Darwin's voyages and the Theory of Evolution. The book probably dated from the 1950s or 1960s and contained countless photos of fascinating creatures, reprodu
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by mvindahl 4y ago
Tried it out on some REST response from a local test server. And, well, as much as I applaud the effort, I also think that I'll stick to my text editor for browsing JSON data and to jq for extracting data from it. My text editor becaus
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by mvindahl 4y ago
> Cryptocurrencies were meant to put an end to such things Yeah, well, Communism was meant to put an end to poverty and class injustice. Brexit was meant to restore glory to Britain. The Catholic Church was mean to put an end to vice. Th
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by mvindahl 4y ago
Did a my first paid software development pretty much exactly 30 years ago, specifically I was hired to port a word processor from the Amiga to the Commodore 64. So my experience is mostly related to the word of 8-bit home computers, already
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by mvindahl 5y ago
In all fairness, I don’t think “crypto” should be banned as such. Partly because it’s a loose and descriptive term, unlike asbestos, which is well defined and tangible. So a blanket ban wouldn’t work. And also because it’s not necessary; ex
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by mvindahl 5y ago
I brought it up because it’s close to Buenos Aires and because I’m under the impression that Uruguay is a pretty well run place. I’m assuming there to already be a lot of connections, personal and trade, between the two metro areas. I’ve ne
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by mvindahl 5y ago
Asbestos solved an actual problem, as did freon. Both also created larger problems and were eventually banned. We could have given them some more time, I guess. Maybe, if given another fifty years, the freon industry might have (waves hands
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by mvindahl 5y ago
If you need to cross a border to fetch your hard currency (or equivalent amount of goods) then what is the value add of using crypto compared to, say, opening a bank account in Montevideo and making a bank transfer?
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by mvindahl 5y ago
Tired: Fyre Festival Wired: Coinbros on Fire Festival
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by mvindahl 5y ago
A lot of "mights" in that article. Sure, index funds are freeloading a bit in the sense that they don't allocate any resources to scrutinizing the prospecta of each individual company, they just assume that other market playe
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by mvindahl 7y ago
Skimmed most of it but still learned some useful stuff. Will keep it in my bookmarks. Also, would suggest mentioning gitbash in the Windows section. You get it for free with git so it's easy to come by, even in corporate environments w
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by mvindahl 7y ago
I'm currently experimenting with migrating a side project to now 2.0. It has been a learning experience, for sure. But so far I think that it has been time well spent. My overarching goal is to be able to create and deploy a new web ap
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by mvindahl 7y ago
At one time I was contracting at a place where every process was broken, from IT to management to testing. It wasn't really a place that attracted talented developers. There were a some developers that were talented and a lot which wer
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by mvindahl 8y ago
In my experience, not having German as my first language, you can get pretty far with guesses and rules of thumb as far as the genders are concerned. With experience your guesses will become more educated. You will start to feel the pattern
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by mvindahl 8y ago
This. A spaghetti monster which solves a real business problem can be improved, chunked into pieces, gradually rewritten, whatever improves maintenance. If need be, there will be funds and time for doing so. By contract, an impeccably archi
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by mvindahl 8y ago
Here in .dk-land we have several Blue Apron style businesses. The most prominent one started out more than two decades ago by as a kind of subscription service -- every week you'd get a bag containing the produce of the season, along w
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by mvindahl 8y ago
My 5 cents on this: - Usually, for large chunks of work, you want to bring in more people. Both because they tend to involve several modules or several layers of the stack, and very few people are equally skilled in every part of the codeba
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by mvindahl 8y ago
> it makes them easily replaceable I don't think a developer is ever "easily replacable" (discounting obviously incompetent people which shouldn't have been hired in the first place). As soon as we join a team we star
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by mvindahl 8y ago
> If the market price of gold increases, the production of it will increase (though to a lesser degree of other commodities). Yet the total amount of gold on this planet is finite, and as the millennia have passed, it has become increasi
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by mvindahl 8y ago
Well, the whole thing is computer data, stored on media. Already these days it's hard to find hardware to read the 5.25" floppy disks that I stored my code on in the late 1980s, and that's just three decades. Preserving digit
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by mvindahl 8y ago
Further advantages of gold over bitcoin: 1) Has been used for millennia. Bitcoin was invented ten years ago. 2) Accepted as valuable by most of human population. Bitcoin mostly as valuable within internet echo bubbles. 3) Although price flu
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by mvindahl 8y ago
Bingo. Just like a casino doesn't "believe" in blackjack, craps or poker. They'll just set up the tables to match what people want to play. In the Goldman Sachs case it's even easier to set up tables as they don&#x2
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by mvindahl 8y ago
Absolutely agree. A PUT method carrying an open/closed flag would seem like a natural choice. Calling it any number of consecutive times with the same payload would be idempotent. There would probably be a GET method to go along with i
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by mvindahl 8y ago
Attila the Pun gave them a bad name
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by mvindahl 8y ago
If you buy stocks in a publicly traded Finnish company, then you're taking on a risk in the hope of making a profit. But you are also putting your money at work in the Finnish economy, stimulating job creation and growth. Everybody win
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by mvindahl 8y ago
Is this really the case? My expectation would be that you would be taxed on the net profits at the end of the year but would have no deductions on net losses at the end of the year. It's a bit skewed but I'm pretty sure that'
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by mvindahl 8y ago
> "[..]and as advances in artificial intelligence allowed for computers to take over more of the mundane work of producing software" Sounds like a brill idea. We could cut those pesky developers out of the loop. I imagine that
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by mvindahl 8y ago
I would imagine that if all the crypto people moved to some smaller email service with a more lenient policy, this service would end up with far bigger deliverability and blacklisting problems than Mailchimp ever had. From here, it may be p
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I also read through the thing, and it was all empty buzzwords and white noise to me. Was hoping to at last have someone describe an actual use case for the blockchain, but nope, another blank.

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